new release from Trinity University Press!

The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry edited by Ashley Capps and Allison Titus, foreword by @alexispauline.bsky.social

I have a poem about cows in this beautiful anthology 💜

"Cows in the Evening"

Front row seats! I’m so close I can smell John Lithgow’s cigarette

Yes, this is real.

Just in time for #marchmadness - y’all need to read this novel!

Portrait of an older Black man wearing an enormous red cowboy hat with enormous red pointy boots and a matching red suit reclined and looking pensive and stylish as hell.

Texas is a state that seems to breed unique characters and Ronnie Mathis was one of my favorites. I saw him at the mall once and it was like seeing Santa Claus. Rest in peace to a gentle soul who wanted to bring joy to the world. www.kristv.com/news/local-n...

I think about this all the time. Like can everyone please leave me alone for a solid calendar year so I can catch up with my reading? Then I can rejoin society.

FOR REAL. I’m not married to him and I want that episode out of my brain.

I love that. It’d still be an honor to have Mary Gaitskill rip your writing to shreds.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.

Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

No my husband mourns it as well. I’ll never look at Benny Blanco the same way.

My husband thought he was getting us tickets to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and ended up buying tickets to the Red Hot Chili PIPERS. Please consider me in your prayers 🙏

Happy birthday! 🎈🎉🎁

I (Josh) am off tomorrow & Saturday to celebrate my birthday! That makes today a great day to order a Josh Sends You Three Paperbacks bundle portersquarebooks.com/product/josh...
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I mean, unless you don't like kickass books

It’s possible my father in law died of Covid complications last year. We’ll never know but it’s still going on. Unbelievable.

Then put me in jail bc I stole years of my life back from not having to watch another Toyotathon ad 🤣

Congratulations!!

The last great invention was DVR. That was the peak of civilization.

Agreed. There are real use cases where AI could be incredible (medical diagnosis) but it was just unleashed with no guardrails and no guidance and no plan other than the oligarchs getting richer.

Yeah Frito Pie’s not weird either. It’s chili that you eat with Fritos 🤷‍♀️

Put this little lady in my novel in progress. I love Bouguereau even though 1) he’s not cool and 2) his young women always freak me out. I described her expression here as “confrontational ennui” but I feel like there’s a lot more going on .. he knows who broke the pitcher.

Voidverse Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Book Riot Dune meets Wool in this high-octane quest through the void, where two eternal forces are about to collide in an epic showdown.A HALF-FORMED UNIVERSE. A POWERFUL ANOMALY. A POEM THAT IS PROPHECY. When the Sinker was a child, all she knew was violence. To survive, she fled into the Void—a seemingly infinite nothingness where people live on “rocks,” individual lands spread out in all directions, floating in the vast empty space. Some rocks are giant magnets, others burn with eternal flame, and some are influenced by seemingly magical anomalies with such great powers that evil forces would stop at nothing to possess them. And while most are afraid of traveling through the Void, the Sinker is not. With a sword on her back, she speeds through the darkness, running from a past that is quickly gaining on her. Emery only knows the comfort of Fairviel, but when her son falls ill and the Sinker arrives on her doorstep, she ventures into the Void in search of a cure. When she returns, Fairviel is destroyed. With no home, Emery begins to sink, chasing a recurring dream that feels bigger than a dream, that feels like the key to everything. But they are not alone in the Void. Mercenaries rise and fall around them, princes and kings guard their kingdoms, and a great machine fuels its ascent by consuming all in its path. With the Void destabilizing, Emery and the Sinker find themselves at a turning point in history, a moment when everything could collapse or realign, and the only thing that may save them exists at the bottom of it all. Or so legend says…

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It was fun to speak to Damien Ober about his new novel Voidverse, which is good and weird as hell. Thanks @portersqbooks.bsky.social!

In other news we’re still doing bras as camisoles.

AWP highlight for sure 😍

For those seeking personal narratives that challenge, heal, and inspire the new CNF anthology from IOE will leave a lasting impact.

It includes writing by @egjames.bsky.social, @athenadixon.bsky.social, and Cris Mazza among others.

Preview and preorder:

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#booktok #writersky

The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete) YouTube video by vvmtest

I’ve been listening to these albums that attempt to turn the descent into dementia into music. It’s very hard to listen to but there’s something incredibly beautiful about the melodies as they fracture and disintegrate.

It feels like the right soundtrack for these times.

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The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

"They got money for wars but can't feed the poor." - Pac

@peter23.bsky.social aren’t you sad you’re not coming to Boston this weekend? 😂

Meanwhile in Massachusetts…